I really need a step by step video with instructions broken down slowly for making an apple. I bought an apple at the store and when I got home, I followed the recipe carefully, but it did not turn out right. Part of the problem is there are thousands of vastly different recipes for making apples, and not a single recipe is the same as another... how do you know which recipe is the right one to use?
I grew up with fat and sugar on various different breads, if rarely lard. One of my mom's favorites was butter and sugar between leftover pancakes, so once a month when she made pancakes there were tons of leftovers.
If you have good bread, butter is all you really need with it. Does get better with some good cheese though - but it can make for a quick, easy meal. I'd still go for higher quality ingredients though lol
It's fat on a shit ton of carbs, how the hell could it not be good? It couldn't. Healthy for kids or their attention spans? ...mmmm I'll get back to you on that one chief.
@@XCodes Eh, I know nutrition is more complex than; "Fats/carbohydrates bad, fiber/vitamins good". I was mostly just making a /s comment. One can also note that as this was during the Great Depression I have a feeling the teachers were incredibly tightfisted with how much butter was actually applied given the financial situation. Same with the bread, white bread is also a lot different than it was then (added sugars in modern white bread and not all the wheat would have been ground out of cheap bread at the time) so it probably maintained a bit of those beneficial traits even if it wasn't straight wheat bread. All that aside I was just being sarcastic/joking.
My grandma used to make me butter sugar sandwiches, it's just the butter sandwich with sugar sprinkled over the butter and it would be a side with some dinners or a snack after school it's amazing and I still make them when I'm having a low energy or kinda down day and I make them for my son's sometimes 😊
Bread and butter sandwiches were a treat when I was little. My mom got the idea from her mom, who, naturally, grew up during the Depression. Such a simple pleasure.
My Grandmother said that before walking to school in the '20s, her mom gave all the kids a hot potato to place in their pockets for a winter walk. Hands were kept warm and the potato was eaten for breakfast.
@@M3rl1n177Boiled eggs were another one I've heard of, though arguably the smell wouldn't be great. (Of course people were less uppity about food smells back then I think; today our noses are used to sterile smelling foodstuffs)
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger What do your eggs smell like? Wtf?! Also nice generalization about food smells. You know, not everyone is like you and just eats processed garbage, right? Outside the US people still can cook btw.
@@scottjames3673 Broke people in the US eat sugar sandwiches, so not difficult to imagine in Cold War era Eastern Europe. Hell they were probably lucky to have sugar.
Never underestimate the simple pleasure of bread and butter. Seriously there's a reason why bread, butter, cheese, and milk are considered foods that one cannot live without. They're amazing.
My mom said during the Depression we always knew we had it better than many others because we had butter sandwiches and a lot of kids had lard or grease dripping ones
My great grandma saved bacon greese until the day she died because of the great depression, and my grandmother had serious food anxiety. It had an absolutely gigantic impact on society, i think people forget. Butter bread was one of my favorite snacks at my polish (other side of the family) grandparents house, which they went through a wild time as well.
Bread-&-dripping was **a staple** for my grandmother- she was 8-9 when the Depression kicked off here in Australia- a piece of fruit was a treat- luckily, she lived in Queensland & on a farm, so fruit (even the more expensive tropical fruit, of the time) _could_ be obtained, but the poor city kids would be quite hard up...
There's nothing bad with butter open face sandwiches. It's basically the "basic" one in Poland, all the rest, even those with ham or cheese, are ultimately Western. The culture of using bread this way pretty much evolved really fast, in the span of one post-war generation, from using it like cornbread in the South (as a part of the dish) to current "sandwich only". And yes, buttered bread with sugar or even water-spinkled bread with sugar were(and are) kids only thing, especially in rural communities.
My mom, a depression era baby, ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches (sometimes toasted) all her life. She passed in January and this brought back great memories.
My mom was post depression, but both of my grandmother's were children of the depression, and both of them aren't even willing to call something a sandwich unless the bread is buttered, they don't even consider it part of the filling, just a prerequisite for calling something a sandwich. Ham sandwich? Butter goes on first. Peanut butter and jelly? Butter goes on first. My dad has internalized this to the point where he won't even eat toast with jelly unless the toast is buttered when we eat breakfast at restaurants.
I can't tell you why but my parents (mom) always butters her peanut butter -and since it tastes good, I do too. Ham, butter and soft fresh bread tastes so good.
They sprinkled sugar on the bread sammich usually. An elderly friend of mine,she’s in her 90s,told me her mom would take condensed milk and drizzle it on toast for her and her brother,for an after school snack. It’s tasty!
My grandma went with a single leaf of iceberg or bibb lettuce in the sandwich for crunch. I remember her making some for us as a late night snack when we would sleep over at grandma's.
Actually we would put a lil bit of sugar on the butter during the depression. Also we drank coffee made from used coffee grounds. It didnt matter what it tastes like, what mattered was that we ate that day.
He thought it was going to be pretty silly to eat ordinary things or something. Considering what he HAS eaten, you'd think he'd be thrilled to eat something ordinary
@@carlsoc1there’s nothing especially great about a bagel OR cream cheese, but when you put them together it makes magic. Bread and butter are like the simple country cousins to the big city bagel and cream cheese.
My grandma would make me butter sandwiches as a kid that were cut into triangles. I always think of her when I have bread and butter or even buttered toast. So simple yet so comforting. Surprised my cholesterol is as low as it is lol
My grandmother always had a glass full of homemade jelly, a stick of butter and a loaf of homemade bread on the kitchen table under a cheesecloth.. loved it
I loved that channel cooking with Clara when she made her Great Depression dishes. These people knew the meaning of suffering and yet were better for it. Sending Clara's spirit some love, and a big thumbs up for this channel!
Buttered bread with chili and pasta too. My mom eats mustard and butter sandwiches, im not a fan. My dad ate his butter sandwich made with a banana, delicious! He also drank ketchup milkshakes 🤢(milk and ketchup if wondering lol)
My mom would make me a peanut butter and chocolate frosting sandwich. I had kids offering to trade their LUNCHABLES for my sandwich. They thought I ate like a queen, when really my mom got the cake frosting and tub of peanut butter for free from the food bank, and she just made the best with what she could get. She'd toss in a kiwi or banana too when she could afford them, and a thermos of lemon-ginger tea or apple juice.
Sounds like a Reese’s sandwich??? And really no more sugar than like, pb and honey. Frankly that sounds so smart of her and really delicious, especially for kids!!
Growing up eating butter sandwich with decafe black tea was my childhood as my parents were new to Canada in 1972 and it was an affordable breakfast that kept the body warm until snack or lunch time.
I'm watching one of your videos, I'm pausing to talk to someone, come back completely lost, got to shorts, ytb is giving me this one, I love it so much
In French Canada a staple food were buckwheat pancake (“galettes de sarrasin”, also called “galette de blé noir”, black wheat pancake, in Brittany) often eaten with molasses instead of maple syrup (although certainly can be) AND peanut butter for the connoisseurs. But practically every family made it. My 1899 born great aunt would apparently pride herself in telling everyone that her buckwheat pancakes weren’t “poor man’s pancakes, there’s three eggs in there, and they’re made with milk!”
Hm....up here at the tip of Maine is a "colony" if you will....of french acadians....we also make and eat buckwheat pancakes but they are called "Ployes" rhymes with...boys.
I absolutely love buckwheat pancakes. There was one restaurant that served them here in Utah when I was a teen/young adult, and I would go out of my way to go there. They were nearly pitch black (or so I remember) and they were hearty and delicious.
@@EggTriangleTriangle And they’re so easy to make! The hardest part is finding the right flour, one that’s not mixed with anything else and with a enough taste (they often sieve it to much or something, a lot of them are made to be alternative boring tasteless flours I think) but for real, if you make them like thinner pancakes, thicker than crepes, so easy. It’s my mom’s go-to quick lunch.
I attended Catholic school as a kid. Since meat wasn’t allowed on Friday, my mother made sugar butter sandwiches. Just white bread & butter with sugar sprinkled on it. It probably wouldn’t be allowed today. She was a depression kid.
My boarding school still does this, and it's not even a Catholic school at all, but that's one of their many breakfast, and also gave us boiled egg too lol
My aunt used to serve butter sandwiches and tomato sandwiches & onion sandwiches. She lived on a farm during WWII & my grandmother would trade whatever she grew with whatever the neighbors grew & that's all they ate. The neighbors mostly grew onions so they had a lot of onion soup. They also ate things that we don't anymore like pickled pigs knuckles, head cheese, liver & onions, and chicken beak/foot soup (it's supposed to make the best broth). Now I'm craving bread & butter.
I just turned 50. When I was in early elementary, the bread was baked by the cafeteria workers. It was fresh, it was "buttered" with margarine, because they thought the fats were better at the time. Yeah. I still remember the smells of the yeast wafting from the cafeteria when they were baking the lunch bread.
When I was little, a butter and sugar sandwich on Wonder Bread ™️ was a treat! Did I find out later that it was struggle food that had been passed down from older generations? Yes. Did that matter at. all.? No. And 8 year old me will fight you on that. 50+ year old me might have a thing or two to say to back back her up. I may not eat them, but Pepperidge Farm remembers!😂
how can I fight 8-year old you? is there a signup sheet? in all seriousness though, when you are kid, as long as it tastes good and you aren't hungry, you dont care about what is struggle food or expensive food! I loved what my grandparents made from the depression, they knew how to make a little go a long way
Pb&mayo sandwich was a childhood favorite of mine, as well as deviled ham sandwiches. You get a piece of white bread, smear half with mayo, smear the other half with a little bit of deviled ham, squirt a bit of mustard on the deviled ham side. Fold and enjoy. A can of deviled ham can make about 6 to 10 sandwiches depending how thin you spread it; it's salty and meaty enough you don't need much, maybe half a teaspoon if that. Mayo is more to offset the salt and moisten it than anything; the squirt of mustard brings it all together.
About 50 years ago I lived in a house in Central CA coastal mountains. It had an apple orchard that was about 100 years old. It had one apple tree that produced apples that were crunchy and tasted like the sweetest apple juice. Never have seen that hybrid since then
It does. My crops are growing, my skin is clear, my depression is gone, and all bc that gaping hole of incompleteness from Max _not eating the butter sandwich_ has finally been filled.
@SilverSerpent - I thought my sister and I were the only kids who ate mayonnaise sandwiches. Our mom would fix the sandwiches, wrap them up, put them in a brown paper lunch bag, and we would cross the creek in our yard to eat them under a huge tree. We called it a picnic and thought we were the luckiest kids on earth. We had no idea how poor our family was.
Was gonna comment don't knock it 'til you try it... my 4-year-old nephew unwittingly made a butter sandwich himself and loved it 😂 It was like one morning, he woke up and my sister laid out sandwich ingredients on table abd told him to make a sandwich himself... he just picked up a knife, spread the butter between 2 toast and made it a sandwich... he was so proud showing it off and was saying how great the sandwich he made himself was and offered to make it for everyone 😂
My mom always used to make butter sandwiches for me (in the 90's). Knowing now it was a depression food makes sense, we were really poor lol But dang are they good!
Butter bread is so simple but so delicious. There are times I literally just crave that and nothing else. It reminds me of my childhood. Not many good memories from then, but at least butter bread kept me alive as well as being enjoyable.
During an internship at a home for the elderly, I saw a sweet old lady who ate potatoes with butter and salt whenever they got a dish with cooked potatoes. She never ate much, but always finished the whole plate of butter and salt potatoes.
My great-grandma was born in 1922 and lived that era. She made butter sandwiches often, so we grew up eating them when we were with her. Didn’t realize how abnormal it was in our day and age until lot later, but I’d give anything to sit down and have one last one with her now.
I'm 67. We had bread and butter sandwiches at lunch about once a week when I was in grade school. 🙂 Also I was in grade school in the time before kindergarten . We all started out as first graders.🙂
My dad made this for us when we were kids in the 90's. I didn't find out until my 30's that he learned this from his mom/aunts who all lived through the great depression. To make it fancy, he'd put butter, peanut butter, and boysenberry jelly lol.
New Yorker here. Cold butter on a kaiser roll with a cup of coffee is a breakfast staple here. I can't help but wonder if that goes back to the depression.
LOL!!! I joked with my husband at the end of that episode "what, no review of the butter samdwich?!?!" I had no idea people would actually message about it..Hahaha!! Thank you for fulfilling the curiosity that is the butter sandwich...
My mom was born 30 years after the great depression but she grew up in a very very poor farming family. She said that she could remember the weeks when they didnt have a lot of food. One time she went to eat her lunch at school and the only thing she had was a bell pepper slice between 2 peices of buttered bread.
My kids had butter sandwiches at their school, and they graduated last year and early this year. Small rural school. It has its own school farm and served local meat donated by farmers in the area. Good stuff.
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression as a child, and so my mother had butter sandwiches, and so in turn so did I! They were my favorite part of meals when they were served (usually with soup, strew, even hamburger helper). Now I upgraded to eating crustier breads with butter, but it’s still nostalgic for me to have that side!
My dad was born in rural Quebec circa 1942 and although the depression was over, wartime rationing meant times were rough. He used to eat buttered bread sprinkled with a bit of sugar 😢
I admit to being one who wanted to see Max eat the butter sandwich, but mostly 'cause like... I get that it's a depression era thing, and it's just butter on bread, but his reaction is genuinely just what I wanted. Thank you, Max, you're awesome
I think that to fully embrace the whole vibe of the depression era, you have to eat everything you’re served or serve for yourself for two reasons: 1. You didn’t waste food. You ate it all. Food is money, life and the ability to go back to work the next day so you and your family don’t starve. 2. You were hungry, so even if you didn’t want it, you would eat it.
When I was quite young (1950s), our family of 2 adults & 5 children was pretty low income. To save on pennies, my mother made homemade bread each week, 7-8 full-sized loaves. The first loaf was ALWAYS designated as the "Hot Tear-Bread" loaf, which was manually ripped apart, slathered with margarine, and sucked down - DELICIOUS! (It's FAR BETTER with butter, but, as i said, we were sort of poor. (However, *at that time I didn't realize that we WERE "poor," mostly because **_OUR_** OUTHOUSE HAD **_THREE HOLES,_** so I thought that **_WE_** were actually **_QUITE_** WELL-TO-DO!)*
Growing up I would only want mom's homemade bread with butter, and a little tub of molasses to put on the buttered bread. It's still a guilty pleasure when I make bread to have loads of butter and a drizzle of molasses on it. It is a traditional Newfoundland treat.
Max, due to the snowfall we had this week in TN I found myself last week on Thursday making my usual grocery run before my kids came over for the week. There was no white bread to be found so I bought a loaf of nut bread. The other night I was wanting a snack and a thought hit me of melting some butter on a piece. It was heavenly and I forgot how good it tasted.
I'd not had a butter sandwich in a few decades. In 2019, I went to Macau and a butter sandwich came with some roasted meat we bought from a local restaurant. I had thought it was a cheese sandwich. As butter and cheese are available in mainland China, where I've lived since 2008, but are not common household items, I savor the products I get my hands on. I wouldn't make a butter sandwich but they were clearly using good stuff and it was so good! It hit a spot that I didn't know I needed to deal with. I've not had one since but I do think about it. Thanks for trying it on camera!
We were given a slice of white bread and we could salt it if we wanted to. It was a snack. My mom and her siblings had to find fruit for food during the no lunches between a breakfast and a dinner at best. Sometimes they'd get a slice of bread and mustard. Her parents grew up during the great depression.
The book is Fantastic! It’s a fun way to learn about history, give your palate s a new experience, and create a fun family time experience recreating these historic dishes. Thank you!
Omg thank you im 42 but i remember my ma gorgot to make me lunch i was about 4th grade walked myself she was sleeping. School called my ma. I remeber my grandmother brought be brown bag at recesse with a very hard red delicous and a margrine sandwhich. I was so happy . Before cell phones she said to meet her at the freindship tree ( we only had one in our yard) thanks for the memory flash back lol
There used to be a wonderful little restaurant in our town that made wonderful fried chicken (Italian seasonings) & other Italian foods too. Pretty much a little hole in the wall mom & pop. Every table was served free spaghetti, French fries, a relish tray (celery, carrots, olives & dill pickle slices) & 1/2 a loaf bread with butter. We used to make buttered bread dill pickle sandwiches. Something so simple yet so good. The food was wonderful & it was sad when the owners retired. It’s been almost 40yrs & people still reminisce about the food.
Mayonnaise sandwiches- my great grandmother who survived the depression at one point lived with us when I was a wee one and as a special treat she would make me Mayonnaise Sandwiches (the whitest of sandwiches) of mayo on Pepperidge Farm white brick bread. I loved that time with her.
I was raised by my grandmother who grew up during the Great Depression and she would make me a butter sandwich to take to school and honestly it was my favorite thing ever. This one time during show and tell a girl brought her dog to class and it ATE my butter sandwich. The teacher felt bad and let me come into the teachers lounge and grab a bag of chips and a box of candy from the vending machine. I remember all the kids were so envious that I got this free random junk food but I remember being kind of meh about it - 8 yo me really wanted that butter sandwich!! Thank god you finally ate this! I was so upset last video
My neighbor was in her 90s and a former school teacher, she told me how she'd eat 'pocket sandwiches' which were mayo and bread folded in half.. that became my own depression food later on because it was filling and quick to make. On quick mornings i do the same thing with some scrambled eggs. Highly recommend that one. xD
When I was growing up we would eat for dinner bananas with bread and butter sandwiches; during corn season sometimes dinner was just corn on the cob. I didn't think it odd until I was an adult. My mother was born in the mid 1940s and her family barely scraped by. I suspect mom served them because she grew up on them and grandma served them because she had six kids to feed on very little money.
I recall chatting with some old timers who claimed they went to school with lard and sugar sandwiches. Must have been okay. They were in their 80's at the time I spoke with them about it.
You’re too great! I recently discovered them, as one does on CZcams, and now I’m on a mission to watch all the existing, as well as future, videos! Food, history, engaging and knowledgeable presenter… recipe for Success! I usually watch them while I’m prepping charts, and I’ve actually gone back and tried some of the recipes. Never disappointed! And I LOVE the history lessons involved! Keep it up!!
I've never seen anyone passive-aggressively eat a butter sandwich before and now my life is one step closer to fullness.
😂 Max looks like he's at 🔫 point.
Yes
This 💦
Fullness after a sandwich is good.
Ok, but admittedly the look of “Ooh, better than expected…” afterwards was pure gold.
Max really needs to post a detailed recipe for the butter sandwich and apple.
I was hoping for some historic info too, such a shame lol
I really need a step by step video with instructions broken down slowly for making an apple. I bought an apple at the store and when I got home, I followed the recipe carefully, but it did not turn out right. Part of the problem is there are thousands of vastly different recipes for making apples, and not a single recipe is the same as another... how do you know which recipe is the right one to use?
@@Justin-vr5zn I'd follow the one for Fuji apples, they're my favourites =D
@@Justin-vr5zn Instructions unclear, ended up planting pears instead
Haha😂
As a custodian that works in a high school, that depression meal is better than what they’re feeding the kids now
I was about to say, that looks like a gourmet meal compared to what I had in school
Yep looks like actual food ingredients
Liar!
My grandfather's family served lard on bread with sugar, because they couldn't afford butter or jam during the depression.
I think lard if done well certainly elevated the favour. Adding sugar definitely increased the overall spectrum of taste.
I grew up with fat and sugar on various different breads, if rarely lard. One of my mom's favorites was butter and sugar between leftover pancakes, so once a month when she made pancakes there were tons of leftovers.
this changes everything
Lol I wasn’t expecting this comment
I love how quick his mood changed towards the butter sandwich after one bite 😂
I know, butter sandwiches are awesome
If you have good bread, butter is all you really need with it. Does get better with some good cheese though - but it can make for a quick, easy meal.
I'd still go for higher quality ingredients though lol
It's bread and butter. Of course he's going to make it again! Like every breakfast lol
It's fat on a shit ton of carbs, how the hell could it not be good? It couldn't. Healthy for kids or their attention spans? ...mmmm I'll get back to you on that one chief.
@@XCodes Eh, I know nutrition is more complex than; "Fats/carbohydrates bad, fiber/vitamins good". I was mostly just making a /s comment.
One can also note that as this was during the Great Depression I have a feeling the teachers were incredibly tightfisted with how much butter was actually applied given the financial situation. Same with the bread, white bread is also a lot different than it was then (added sugars in modern white bread and not all the wheat would have been ground out of cheap bread at the time) so it probably maintained a bit of those beneficial traits even if it wasn't straight wheat bread.
All that aside I was just being sarcastic/joking.
My grandmother would make buttered toast and add a little cinnamon and sugar to it. She said that was her favorite treat as a kid in the 1930s
This went on to become an East Coast favorite for kids, bread, butter and white sugar. My grandmother used to make these for me.
"...actualy you know what, that's delicious!"
Wholesome AF.
I love the vibe of suppressed annoyance Max radiates in this short. A true professional if ever I saw one.
Commenters acting like they need someone to tell them what buttered bread tastes like
My grandma used to make me butter sugar sandwiches, it's just the butter sandwich with sugar sprinkled over the butter and it would be a side with some dinners or a snack after school it's amazing and I still make them when I'm having a low energy or kinda down day and I make them for my son's sometimes 😊
In the UK we call them sugar butties
Bread and butter sandwiches were a treat when I was little. My mom got the idea from her mom, who, naturally, grew up during the Depression. Such a simple pleasure.
"I would actually make that again." This, sir, placed a smile on my face. Thank you for what you do.
My Grandmother said that before walking to school in the '20s, her mom gave all the kids a hot potato to place in their pockets for a winter walk. Hands were kept warm and the potato was eaten for breakfast.
@@M3rl1n177sounds good
@@M3rl1n177 sounds fake
@@M3rl1n177Boiled eggs were another one I've heard of, though arguably the smell wouldn't be great.
(Of course people were less uppity about food smells back then I think; today our noses are used to sterile smelling foodstuffs)
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger What do your eggs smell like? Wtf?!
Also nice generalization about food smells. You know, not everyone is like you and just eats processed garbage, right? Outside the US people still can cook btw.
@@scottjames3673 Broke people in the US eat sugar sandwiches, so not difficult to imagine in Cold War era Eastern Europe. Hell they were probably lucky to have sugar.
Never underestimate the simple pleasure of bread and butter.
Seriously there's a reason why bread, butter, cheese, and milk are considered foods that one cannot live without. They're amazing.
This is the absolute peak of all content, I will never witness anything this good ever again and I have to live with that now.
My dad grew up poor, and they would have the butter sandwich, but they would sprinkle sugar on it.
You have something in common with the great Roger Daltrey..lol.
Cinnamon sugar is good too, if ya have it.
@@UdderlyEvelyn Cinnamon toast is the step up there, yeah.
I was going make the make comment, And I’m asian!
Cinnamon raisin toast smothered in butter...
Me and my dad used to wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and eat butter sandwiches together. This unlocked a core memory. RIP daddy.
Adorable.
Wholesome.
I still eat butter sandwiches. I especially like it when I eat spaghetti. Some times I get fancy and put a little extra salt on the butter 🤣
😊 awesome!!! 😮😮
NICE!
My mom said during the Depression we always knew we had it better than many others because we had butter sandwiches and a lot of kids had lard or grease dripping ones
When he said “that’s actually delicious” I chuckled a little because he sounded genuinely surprised. 😅
My great grandma saved bacon greese until the day she died because of the great depression, and my grandmother had serious food anxiety. It had an absolutely gigantic impact on society, i think people forget. Butter bread was one of my favorite snacks at my polish (other side of the family) grandparents house, which they went through a wild time as well.
Bacon grease saving is a big thing still in the south honestly. It’s just what you do in many families.
Bread-&-dripping was **a staple** for my grandmother- she was 8-9 when the Depression kicked off here in Australia- a piece of fruit was a treat- luckily, she lived in Queensland & on a farm, so fruit (even the more expensive tropical fruit, of the time) _could_ be obtained, but the poor city kids would be quite hard up...
Bacon grease is southern gold.
There's nothing bad with butter open face sandwiches. It's basically the "basic" one in Poland, all the rest, even those with ham or cheese, are ultimately Western.
The culture of using bread this way pretty much evolved really fast, in the span of one post-war generation, from using it like cornbread in the South (as a part of the dish) to current "sandwich only".
And yes, buttered bread with sugar or even water-spinkled bread with sugar were(and are) kids only thing, especially in rural communities.
In my household we save the bacon grease, and then use it for cooking later. I cooked some eggs in bacon grease last night
My mom, a depression era baby, ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches (sometimes toasted) all her life. She passed in January and this brought back great memories.
My mom too! ❤❤❤ it’s what I (and I bet you) grew up on as a result😊
My mom was post depression, but both of my grandmother's were children of the depression, and both of them aren't even willing to call something a sandwich unless the bread is buttered, they don't even consider it part of the filling, just a prerequisite for calling something a sandwich. Ham sandwich? Butter goes on first. Peanut butter and jelly? Butter goes on first. My dad has internalized this to the point where he won't even eat toast with jelly unless the toast is buttered when we eat breakfast at restaurants.
I can't tell you why but my parents (mom) always butters her peanut butter -and since it tastes good, I do too.
Ham, butter and soft fresh bread tastes so good.
@@artonthecreek She tried! But I never caught on to it, sadly.
@@Great_Olaf5 Amazing.
They sprinkled sugar on the bread sammich usually.
An elderly friend of mine,she’s in her 90s,told me her mom would take condensed milk and drizzle it on toast for her and her brother,for an after school snack. It’s tasty!
Came here to see if anyone else's Granny ever made them sugar sammiches for a snack lol. Yours ever make you marshmallows on saltines? xD
My grandma went with a single leaf of iceberg or bibb lettuce in the sandwich for crunch. I remember her making some for us as a late night snack when we would sleep over at grandma's.
Actually we would put a lil bit of sugar on the butter during the depression. Also we drank coffee made from used coffee grounds. It didnt matter what it tastes like, what mattered was that we ate that day.
the things Max has eaten for this channel and yet being asked to eat a butter sandwich was his line 😂😂😂
He thought it was going to be pretty silly to eat ordinary things or something. Considering what he HAS eaten, you'd think he'd be thrilled to eat something ordinary
@@carlsoc1there’s nothing especially great about a bagel OR cream cheese, but when you put them together it makes magic. Bread and butter are like the simple country cousins to the big city bagel and cream cheese.
@@jutde And sometimes there's nothing you crave quite so much as a buttered roll or a bread and butter sandwich!
@@jutde So true
@@carlsoc1 when u have been gluten free so long ur hungry dreams are filled with the struggle to find gluten free food... it's not so ordinary.
My grandma would make me butter sandwiches as a kid that were cut into triangles. I always think of her when I have bread and butter or even buttered toast. So simple yet so comforting. Surprised my cholesterol is as low as it is lol
Butter will lower your bad cholesterol.
My grandmother always had a glass full of homemade jelly, a stick of butter and a loaf of homemade bread on the kitchen table under a cheesecloth.. loved it
My grandmother did triangles, too. To this day that is the only way I cut bread/sandwich of any kind.
@@robviousobviously5757unironically sounds tasty
you may have just hit the genetic lottery when it comes to cholesterol.
The butter back then was hand churned. That's a must for period correct, tasty butter sandwich. The butter also goes well with apples.
Butter sandwich with slivered onions is so good! One of my favorite dinner bedtime snacks
Our school lunch program always had bread and butter sandwiches. If you were still hungry, you had a bread and butter sandwich; at no extra cost.
Absolutely phenomenal. The slightly surprised reaction of the butter sandwich being enjoyable is exactly why I wanted you to review it.
My grandparents grew up during the great depression and lived on a farm. They had lard sandwiches.
I loved that channel cooking with Clara when she made her Great Depression dishes. These people knew the meaning of suffering and yet were better for it. Sending Clara's spirit some love, and a big thumbs up for this channel!
My dad used to make my little sister and I "butter breads" with our soup. Still love it to this day even though it's absurdly simple
Buttered bread with chili and pasta too. My mom eats mustard and butter sandwiches, im not a fan. My dad ate his butter sandwich made with a banana, delicious! He also drank ketchup milkshakes 🤢(milk and ketchup if wondering lol)
We often had bread and butter as as a side dish with dinner. Sometimes biscuits and jam.
My mom would make me a peanut butter and chocolate frosting sandwich. I had kids offering to trade their LUNCHABLES for my sandwich. They thought I ate like a queen, when really my mom got the cake frosting and tub of peanut butter for free from the food bank, and she just made the best with what she could get. She'd toss in a kiwi or banana too when she could afford them, and a thermos of lemon-ginger tea or apple juice.
Your mom sounds like a hero
Sounds like a Reese’s sandwich??? And really no more sugar than like, pb and honey. Frankly that sounds so smart of her and really delicious, especially for kids!!
@@warmpancaxeMaybe even a reuben or hoagie.
@@finnheisenheim8274 super underrated comment xD
PB & chocolate - A match made in heaven.
Growing up eating butter sandwich with decafe black tea was my childhood as my parents were new to Canada in 1972 and it was an affordable breakfast that kept the body warm until snack or lunch time.
I'm watching one of your videos, I'm pausing to talk to someone, come back completely lost, got to shorts, ytb is giving me this one, I love it so much
In French Canada a staple food were buckwheat pancake (“galettes de sarrasin”, also called “galette de blé noir”, black wheat pancake, in Brittany) often eaten with molasses instead of maple syrup (although certainly can be) AND peanut butter for the connoisseurs. But practically every family made it. My 1899 born great aunt would apparently pride herself in telling everyone that her buckwheat pancakes weren’t “poor man’s pancakes, there’s three eggs in there, and they’re made with milk!”
Hm....up here at the tip of Maine is a "colony" if you will....of french acadians....we also make and eat buckwheat pancakes but they are called "Ployes" rhymes with...boys.
I absolutely love buckwheat pancakes. There was one restaurant that served them here in Utah when I was a teen/young adult, and I would go out of my way to go there. They were nearly pitch black (or so I remember) and they were hearty and delicious.
@@EggTriangleTriangle And they’re so easy to make! The hardest part is finding the right flour, one that’s not mixed with anything else and with a enough taste (they often sieve it to much or something, a lot of them are made to be alternative boring tasteless flours I think) but for real, if you make them like thinner pancakes, thicker than crepes, so easy. It’s my mom’s go-to quick lunch.
I attended Catholic school as a kid. Since meat wasn’t allowed on Friday, my mother made sugar butter sandwiches. Just white bread & butter with sugar sprinkled on it. It probably wouldn’t be allowed today. She was a depression kid.
I was going to post the same thing
This, and or putting the apple inside of the sandwich
My dad ate these sandwiches all the time!
My boarding school still does this, and it's not even a Catholic school at all, but that's one of their many breakfast, and also gave us boiled egg too lol
That was what our grandparents gave us when we asked for something sweet.
My aunt used to serve butter sandwiches and tomato sandwiches & onion sandwiches. She lived on a farm during WWII & my grandmother would trade whatever she grew with whatever the neighbors grew & that's all they ate. The neighbors mostly grew onions so they had a lot of onion soup. They also ate things that we don't anymore like pickled pigs knuckles, head cheese, liver & onions, and chicken beak/foot soup (it's supposed to make the best broth). Now I'm craving bread & butter.
I just turned 50. When I was in early elementary, the bread was baked by the cafeteria workers. It was fresh, it was "buttered" with margarine, because they thought the fats were better at the time. Yeah. I still remember the smells of the yeast wafting from the cafeteria when they were baking the lunch bread.
When I was little, a butter and sugar sandwich on Wonder Bread ™️ was a treat!
Did I find out later that it was struggle food that had been passed down from older generations? Yes.
Did that matter at. all.?
No. And 8 year old me will fight you on that.
50+ year old me might have a thing or two to say to back back her up. I may not eat them, but Pepperidge Farm remembers!😂
how can I fight 8-year old you? is there a signup sheet? in all seriousness though, when you are kid, as long as it tastes good and you aren't hungry, you dont care about what is struggle food or expensive food! I loved what my grandparents made from the depression, they knew how to make a little go a long way
Pb&mayo sandwich was a childhood favorite of mine, as well as deviled ham sandwiches.
You get a piece of white bread, smear half with mayo, smear the other half with a little bit of deviled ham, squirt a bit of mustard on the deviled ham side.
Fold and enjoy.
A can of deviled ham can make about 6 to 10 sandwiches depending how thin you spread it; it's salty and meaty enough you don't need much, maybe half a teaspoon if that. Mayo is more to offset the salt and moisten it than anything; the squirt of mustard brings it all together.
You listen to your fans. I appreciate that about you.
An important factor at that time was the added fat of the butter sandwich, which provided calories many children might need.
About 50 years ago I lived in a house in Central CA coastal mountains. It had an apple orchard that was about 100 years old. It had one apple tree that produced apples that were crunchy and tasted like the sweetest apple juice. Never have seen that hybrid since then
My grandma was born during the great depression, and she'd make me butter sandwiches when I was young.. and that just clicked for me just now haha
I hope that the people giving the pushback feel as though their life is complete now. 😂
Ha!
I didn’t say anything about it but I was crushed when he didn’t review the sandwich. I am at peace now
It does. My crops are growing, my skin is clear, my depression is gone, and all bc that gaping hole of incompleteness from Max _not eating the butter sandwich_ has finally been filled.
"It's just butter and bread"
"That's delicious, I'd make that again"
I like how Max doesn't take even a butter sandwich for granted, he's grateful even if it's just a small thing.
We were very poor growing up. We used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches. They were pretty darn good toasted.
peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches are 100% depression food!
You had a toaster? We didn't.
@@zoomzabba452 My dad (born in 1930) used to eat those all the time!
We call this a “wish sandwich”
@SilverSerpent - I thought my sister and I were the only kids who ate mayonnaise sandwiches. Our mom would fix the sandwiches, wrap them up, put them in a brown paper lunch bag, and we would cross the creek in our yard to eat them under a huge tree. We called it a picnic and thought we were the luckiest kids on earth. We had no idea how poor our family was.
My great grandmother told us that during the depression they had lard sandwiches, I think the bread was toasted.
Thanks for the sweet memory of my dad & a butter sandwich. Dads know stuff. ❤
Was gonna comment don't knock it 'til you try it... my 4-year-old nephew unwittingly made a butter sandwich himself and loved it 😂 It was like one morning, he woke up and my sister laid out sandwich ingredients on table abd told him to make a sandwich himself... he just picked up a knife, spread the butter between 2 toast and made it a sandwich... he was so proud showing it off and was saying how great the sandwich he made himself was and offered to make it for everyone 😂
I absolutely LOVE that reaction to a butter sandwich; "Actually...that's delicious..."
I was kind of surprised he never had a butter sandwich before
My mom always used to make butter sandwiches for me (in the 90's). Knowing now it was a depression food makes sense, we were really poor lol
But dang are they good!
Butter bread is so simple but so delicious. There are times I literally just crave that and nothing else. It reminds me of my childhood. Not many good memories from then, but at least butter bread kept me alive as well as being enjoyable.
During an internship at a home for the elderly, I saw a sweet old lady who ate potatoes with butter and salt whenever they got a dish with cooked potatoes. She never ate much, but always finished the whole plate of butter and salt potatoes.
Sometimes the simplest things are the best.
The mad lad actually did it. Respect
My great-grandma was born in 1922 and lived that era. She made butter sandwiches often, so we grew up eating them when we were with her. Didn’t realize how abnormal it was in our day and age until lot later, but I’d give anything to sit down and have one last one with her now.
I'm 67. We had bread and butter sandwiches at lunch about once a week when I was in grade school. 🙂 Also I was in grade school in the time before kindergarten . We all started out as first graders.🙂
My dad made this for us when we were kids in the 90's. I didn't find out until my 30's that he learned this from his mom/aunts who all lived through the great depression. To make it fancy, he'd put butter, peanut butter, and boysenberry jelly lol.
New Yorker here. Cold butter on a kaiser roll with a cup of coffee is a breakfast staple here. I can't help but wonder if that goes back to the depression.
LOL!!! I joked with my husband at the end of that episode "what, no review of the butter samdwich?!?!" I had no idea people would actually message about it..Hahaha!! Thank you for fulfilling the curiosity that is the butter sandwich...
My mom was born 30 years after the great depression but she grew up in a very very poor farming family. She said that she could remember the weeks when they didnt have a lot of food. One time she went to eat her lunch at school and the only thing she had was a bell pepper slice between 2 peices of buttered bread.
My kids had butter sandwiches at their school, and they graduated last year and early this year. Small rural school. It has its own school farm and served local meat donated by farmers in the area. Good stuff.
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression as a child, and so my mother had butter sandwiches, and so in turn so did I! They were my favorite part of meals when they were served (usually with soup, strew, even hamburger helper). Now I upgraded to eating crustier breads with butter, but it’s still nostalgic for me to have that side!
My dad was born in rural Quebec circa 1942 and although the depression was over, wartime rationing meant times were rough. He used to eat buttered bread sprinkled with a bit of sugar 😢
I admit to being one who wanted to see Max eat the butter sandwich, but mostly 'cause like... I get that it's a depression era thing, and it's just butter on bread, but his reaction is genuinely just what I wanted. Thank you, Max, you're awesome
I think that to fully embrace the whole vibe of the depression era, you have to eat everything you’re served or serve for yourself for two reasons:
1. You didn’t waste food. You ate it all. Food is money, life and the ability to go back to work the next day so you and your family don’t starve.
2. You were hungry, so even if you didn’t want it, you would eat it.
Butter sandwich is delicious, you don’t even need to be greatly depressed to enjoy it
😂excellent
When I was quite young (1950s), our family of 2 adults & 5 children was pretty low income. To save on pennies, my mother made homemade bread each week, 7-8 full-sized loaves. The first loaf was ALWAYS designated as the "Hot Tear-Bread" loaf, which was manually ripped apart, slathered with margarine, and sucked down - DELICIOUS! (It's FAR BETTER with butter, but, as i said, we were sort of poor. (However, *at that time I didn't realize that we WERE "poor," mostly because **_OUR_** OUTHOUSE HAD **_THREE HOLES,_** so I thought that **_WE_** were actually **_QUITE_** WELL-TO-DO!)*
Truly hard hitting journalism. Thank you tasting history
I used to eat buttered bread all the time as a kid. That was my standard go-to snack between meals.
Growing up I would only want mom's homemade bread with butter, and a little tub of molasses to put on the buttered bread. It's still a guilty pleasure when I make bread to have loads of butter and a drizzle of molasses on it. It is a traditional Newfoundland treat.
So good!
We had peanut butter and Maple syrup sandwiches.
@@ad6417 oh yum! I like peanut butter and honey too, but maple syrup sounds delicious 😋
Yes! My (Depression era) Dad and I used to have butter sandwiches as an afternoon snack all the time!
Max is such a good sport 💕
Oh my gosh! My grandparents would love seeing this! I remember so many stories from the great depression🙏
Max, due to the snowfall we had this week in TN I found myself last week on Thursday making my usual grocery run before my kids came over for the week. There was no white bread to be found so I bought a loaf of nut bread. The other night I was wanting a snack and a thought hit me of melting some butter on a piece. It was heavenly and I forgot how good it tasted.
I'd not had a butter sandwich in a few decades. In 2019, I went to Macau and a butter sandwich came with some roasted meat we bought from a local restaurant. I had thought it was a cheese sandwich. As butter and cheese are available in mainland China, where I've lived since 2008, but are not common household items, I savor the products I get my hands on. I wouldn't make a butter sandwich but they were clearly using good stuff and it was so good! It hit a spot that I didn't know I needed to deal with. I've not had one since but I do think about it. Thanks for trying it on camera!
We were given a slice of white bread and we could salt it if we wanted to. It was a snack. My mom and her siblings had to find fruit for food during the no lunches between a breakfast and a dinner at best. Sometimes they'd get a slice of bread and mustard. Her parents grew up during the great depression.
Since you liked the butter sandwich so much you should try a twice baked open face butter sandwich.
The book is Fantastic! It’s a fun way to learn about history, give your palate s a new experience, and create a fun family time experience recreating these historic dishes.
Thank you!
My mom was raised by her grandmother, who lived through the Depression, and she still makes a butter sandwich occasionally for lunch
That poor Apple. 😂 he took that bite with so much aggression 😅
The snark level is supreme. Max is AWESOME!
But always polite and witty snark! Lol.
my grandparents were from the great depression, they said that the poor kids ate mustard sandwiches their families couldn't even afford butter. :(
Omg thank you im 42 but i remember my ma gorgot to make me lunch i was about 4th grade walked myself she was sleeping. School called my ma. I remeber my grandmother brought be brown bag at recesse with a very hard red delicous and a margrine sandwhich. I was so happy . Before cell phones she said to meet her at the freindship tree ( we only had one in our yard) thanks for the memory flash back lol
Let's be honest, who hasn't had a butter sandwich or 5000000 when times have been hard? I had so many in my childhood.
There used to be a wonderful little restaurant in our town that made wonderful fried chicken (Italian seasonings) & other Italian foods too. Pretty much a little hole in the wall mom & pop. Every table was served free spaghetti, French fries, a relish tray (celery, carrots, olives & dill pickle slices) & 1/2 a loaf bread with butter.
We used to make buttered bread dill pickle sandwiches. Something so simple yet so good.
The food was wonderful & it was sad when the owners retired.
It’s been almost 40yrs & people still reminisce about the food.
My daddy always made everyone’s butter bread sandwich during supper. Great memories.
We still have butter bread with some meals.
Mayonnaise sandwiches- my great grandmother who survived the depression at one point lived with us when I was a wee one and as a special treat she would make me Mayonnaise Sandwiches (the whitest of sandwiches) of mayo on Pepperidge Farm white brick bread. I loved that time with her.
I was raised by my grandmother who grew up during the Great Depression and she would make me a butter sandwich to take to school and honestly it was my favorite thing ever. This one time during show and tell a girl brought her dog to class and it ATE my butter sandwich. The teacher felt bad and let me come into the teachers lounge and grab a bag of chips and a box of candy from the vending machine. I remember all the kids were so envious that I got this free random junk food but I remember being kind of meh about it - 8 yo me really wanted that butter sandwich!!
Thank god you finally ate this! I was so upset last video
Now this is the kind of people we need investigating butter sandwiches
I really appreciate your journalistic integrity. Thank you. ❤
My neighbor was in her 90s and a former school teacher, she told me how she'd eat 'pocket sandwiches' which were mayo and bread folded in half.. that became my own depression food later on because it was filling and quick to make. On quick mornings i do the same thing with some scrambled eggs. Highly recommend that one. xD
Poor Max...people just can't give you a break huh 😆
My grandmother was so poor. They had to take Lard sandwiches to school.
You know.. this actually reminds me of how delicious my school lunches were...
When I was growing up we would eat for dinner bananas with bread and butter sandwiches; during corn season sometimes dinner was just corn on the cob. I didn't think it odd until I was an adult. My mother was born in the mid 1940s and her family barely scraped by. I suspect mom served them because she grew up on them and grandma served them because she had six kids to feed on very little money.
I recall chatting with some old timers who claimed they went to school with lard and sugar sandwiches. Must have been okay. They were in their 80's at the time I spoke with them about it.
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